10 Pumtek Tibetan Trade Beads

Original Pumtek beads were made in Burma (now Myanmar) from opalized palm wood. They are rare and valuable, having been made more than a thousand years ago. In the 1920s, the original beads were no longer found at ruins sites, and new ones began to be made from fossilized (not opalized) wood. These are from that later group. Contemporary beads made in Nepal in the style of ancient Pumtek beads from Myanmar.

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